The latest rise in property tax collections at the end of last year continued a nine-quarter streak of increases, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
There were an estimated 630,000, or 46.3%, more home sellers than buyers in the United States in February, according to a Redfin report.
The smaller business owned by asset manager EJF Capital reported servicing 5,351 home loans with an unpaid balance of $1.18 billion in 2024.
There's a 13-percentage-point differential in the use of "advanced" mortgage fraud detection tools between banks and non-banks, with costs as a major reason why.
The top employers in home lending value business partners with a large market share and reach but they also need to differentiate themselves.
These home lenders with 500 or more employees are considered among their staffs the best mortgage company to work for in 2026.
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Full documentation was only applied to 2.6% of the underlying pool of mortgages. Debt-to-income, however, was 23.3% when it was applied.
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New questions about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's guarantee by experts who saw conservatorship start points to tensions in a stalled secondary offering.
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Affordability improved in February as rates dipped below 6%, but March's climb to 6.43% signals tougher months ahead. Lenders should act now on pockets of opportunity before rising rates erode recent gains.
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Pulte alleged that James appeared to misrepresent who would occupy property in separate homeowner insurance applications, saying the documents could indicate that James "may have defrauded" insurers in those states.
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Artificial intelligence has opened the door for innovations ranging from virtual economists and compliance assistants to lender-profitability forecasting.
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Some lenders and condo market stakeholders are raising concerns that new GSE rules ending limited reviews and tightening reserve requirements could raise costs.
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Treasuries rallied and broke key levels, but stubborn 5-year resistance still caps momentum and rate-cut expectations remain unchanged, the CEO of IF Securities writes.
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The 5-year yield swung sharply after conflicting BLS jobs and CPI data, with softer inflation boosting rate-cut hopes, according to the CEO of IF Securities.
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Mortgage tech's speed is undermined by flawed credit data, causing costly fallout. Lenders must treat data accuracy as a pipeline risk, not a peripheral issue, according to the founder of Consumer Attorneys
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ON-DEMAND VIDEOThe markets are waiting for the Federal Open Market Committee to make its next move.
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ON-DEMAND VIDEOThe Federal Open Market Committee will meet on June 17-18. While no rate cuts are expected at this point, things can change quickly. Lauren Saidel-Baker, economist at ITR Economics, provides her take on the meeting the new Summary of Economic Projections and Fed Chair Jerome Powell's press conference.
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ON-DEMAND VIDEOGet expert analysis of the May FOMC meeting, inflation outlook, and Powell's comments.
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